Re: MS Access

On Tue, 8/13/2024 11:29 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 23:28:01 -0400, Paul wrote:
 

On Tue, 8/13/2024 5:44 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 01:33:36 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
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... if you want letter drives then you get enough of them for almost
any need.

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Mount points only work on NTFS volumes, though. So you cannot use them
to mix and match other filesystem types, the way you can on Linux.
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Is that a practical consideration ? No.
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If I had 128 partitions on a GPT disk, it would not be a problem for
them to all be NTFS. I would still get the usage of the storage device.

 
NTFS is showing its age in some ways, though.
 

What way would that be ?

You can make your filename complete with Hungarian characters (punctuation).

Filenames/paths can be much longer than 253 characters. There is an option
you can switch on for that. The implication is, they actually tested it :-)

NTFS still has TXF (while deprecated, my backup software still uses it).
That's an atomic commit option.

NTFS has had New Compression added as a reparse point. That leaves
Old Compression still as a feature. Linux cannot read New Compression (why they did it???) .

How you extend files is a bit janky. EXTn has it beat there.
You can "run out of resources" via a test case that only uses
a single 50-60GB test file. It did not run out of resources
(not out of memory). It's because the extensions to do indirection
for things, isn't very fancy.

ReFS was supposed to be an improved file system, but it too is
deprecated and an existing ReFS partition is likely to still mount
as expected. The "format" command still seems to have an option for it.

/A:size   Overrides the default allocation unit size. Default settings are strongly recommended for general use.
          ReFS supports 4096, 64K.

          NTFS supports 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K, 32K, 64K, 128K, 256K, 512K, 1M, 2M.  (<=64K is backward compatible!)
                                                                    ^^^   ^^^   ^^^   ^^^ ^^^  (don't use these)

          FAT supports 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K, 32K, 64K, (128K, 256K for sector size > 512 bytes).

          FAT32 supports 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K, 32K, 64K, (128K, 256K for sector size > 512 bytes)

          exFAT supports 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K, 32K, 64K, 128K, 256K, 512K, 1M, 2M, 4M, 8M, 16M, 32M.

I can't remember now, how you do a UDF disk drive.

   Paul